The idea was to run a "virtual RR10" race. These are fortnightly races held over the summer and are offroad races organised by and for a number of running clubs back down south, mostly around the New Forest.
Consequently, I set off enthusiastically. Rather too enthusiastically, given my recent lack of training and excess tonnage. Before I'd covered a mile, I was starting to think I might already have over-cooked it a bit. Then, by the top of the 2nd small rise, the wheels fell off.
The weather was overcast but at least it was dry. It was also very humid, and that made breathing hard (that and my indecently low levels of fitness). It was all a bit much, and I ground to an ignominious halt a few times going up some of the hills. At one point, I thought I might as well take a picture of the nice view and the phone's camera started playing silly buggers, which nearly capped it all.
The actual "For Freddie's Sake" moment came when I was (it turned out) about 1km from home and the fitbit ran out of juice. It had had 50% charge, which should have been plenty for 45 or 50 minutes. It's a couple of years old and the battery is probably giving up the ghost. At least the fitbit remembers what it's done: I've had watches that forgot everything if they ran out mid-run. What the fitbit doesn't do is to realise I've finished, so it thinks I took over an hour because that's when it got turned back on. The time up above is my actual time (more or less: the clock on my phone seems unable to cope with seconds).
OSmaps to the rescue: I got accurate distance and elevation for the whole run and those are the numbers in the stats. The elevation profile is fitbit's, so it's short.
So, a lot of hard, hot work for not a lot of gain. And the heavy breathing niggled my cracked rib, so that's another entertainment.
The upside is that a fenix 6X Pro is on the way. Toys!
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